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Friday, 14 February 2014

GrandBlogMom ... Guess who uses this? Ypocras an update ...

Well –
you guessed right ... young Lenny! I have a new name: GrandBlogMom! Sharon is BlogMom ... I’ve been elevated to
the grand level ... the other age-related connotation I care to forget about!

GrandBlogMom
has been a very lucky lady and received a Valentine’s Day card, an ecard and a
hamper full of goodies ...

Lenny
does not forget either ... he sent some flowers to Linda in the Nursing Centre
... she was so chuffed, and beaming with delight ... I couldn’t get my coat off
before she was regaling me about her wonderful blooms.

In
these days of American snowstorms, blizzards, floods, coastal storms, major
winds, lashing rain, heat-waves in Australia ... we all need cheering up.

On
Monday I went up to London to visit “The
Worshipful Company of Drapers of the City of London” – thankfully on about
the only dry day this week ... but each time I go to London the fields are even
more flooded.

A post
is coming up ... but relating back to my A-Z postings last year and the Y forYpocras entry ... I was fascinated to read in the history of The Drapers’ the
following:

.. one of the benefactors is the Elizabethan
antiquary, William Lambarde. He
entrusted the Drapers with the governorship of the almshouses; he also
presented the Company with a handsome silver gilt cup and four gallons of
ippocras (a spiced wine cordial).

Life
fascinates me ... that these connections keep rolling in ... there was another,
but that deserves a longer post ...

I
called in to see my sister-in-law in the Chancery Lane area of London ... her
advice to me and my visit was:

Avoid low lying ground – they have closed the Thames barrier
to keep us dry.

I
laughed, but some hours later ... the actual point dawned on me ... I was
travelling on the Underground – so I was well below river, ground-water and
rain level ... the Victorian structures held I am very pleased to say!

Enjoying a glass of Ypocras before itcan get stored!

Anyway
enough of thinking about potential disasters, major city floods or similar
nasties ... to you all on this Valentine’s Day I toast you with a glass of Ypocras,
or perhaps a hot chocolate ...

... and
I can only hope for so many that the jet stream changes course very soon – it is
becoming/has become very serious in parts of the UK ...

... and
a very big hug to that wonderful, cheery, happy chap Lenny of Lenny's World ... who is always so
thoughtful ...

Lenny is a sweetheart, isn't he? So nice that Australia got a mention in the weather department, made a change from hearing about the dastardly weather in the UK and.the US. We have been having heatwaves for months now, but we shrug and say, well it is summer. Must be puzzling to hear people complaining about the heat when you're freezing though.

Happy Valentine's Hilary! I haven't been around the blogs much...busy start of the school year here for teacher me!

Hilary, the floods in Britain sound really alarming, so I'm glad you emerged safely from the underground, and congratulations on being a grandblogmom - how lovely to be remembered on Valentines Day. I hope the sun shines for you soon.

@ Teresa - Lenny made my week .. the underground might be under the ground .. yet it was a taxi driver in Holborn about half a mile away from Chancery Lane who was killed by falling masonry as she sat in her car waiting for her clients.

@ Ros - sometimes hot chocolate, sometimes yppocras! I don't mind the tube when it's not jam-packed .. I'll use the bus or my feet on those times ..

@ Christine - thank you .. just hope Spring and some dry weather comes soon ... and Lenny is just so kind.

@ Jo - we had a 24 hour storm that was horrendous ... very very windy. The coast was very battered by the pounding waves ... the worst in the west ..

@ Gary - gosh Lenny makes my heart sing at times .. and I consider myself honoured that he always thinks of Linda and I, originally my own mother. I hadn't realised Sharon had lived in Leek - hence your connection ...

We're fine down here - but what happens with the world's weather is only something we can think about and wait and see. Yes I knew about the speed of the jet-stream being 1/2 as fast again than 'normal' - I hope it gets off its rushing course. Beautiful today!

Thanks for your thoughts for us all and particularly Lenny ..

@ Juliet - the floods and storms are alarming if people don't pay attention usually ... then sadly there are the 'freak' and other deaths .. very unfortunate.

I'm delighted with my grandblogmom title! and it is lovely to be remembered on Valentine's Day, as too Linda .. funnily enough the sun is shining now with a clear blue, cold, sky - but clear!!

Thanks everyone .. lovely today .. let's hope the main storms and rain deluges have gone for a while .. have a happy week - Hilary

We didn't do anything special for Valentine, except we had Sushis, that's always a treat, as they are very expensive here. I saw the terrible flooding in the UK, I am sure there must be a very strong wind in Eastbourne too and now way to walk at the seafront ! I also read your post below. We had some damages due to the storm, not here in Waterloo, but still the wind is terrible. What a weather !

Hilary, thank you for dropping by far-flung Japan. Wild weather here, too. Yamanashi has a so-called 120-year snow and has shut down. Snow is 160 cm deep at this old minka - we can't get out. Regardless, I am glad to announce that my new website introducing the sudden mystery of my art and music is now live at http://catrienross.com so I hope you can visit. Congratulations on all your news - a hot chocolate to celebrate sounds perfect right now. Wishing you all the best as 2014 horse energy gallops forward - Catrien in Japan.

I love the way life gives us little nudges from time to time. Something from the past crops up without warning and brings back a memory or just makes something else fall into place all at once. I like to think it's Fate telling me I'm in the right place. (I feel a blog post coming on......)

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A lover of life – who after London, spent time in South Africa; an administrator, sports lover, who enjoys cooking and entertaining ... who through her mother’s illness found a new passion – writing, in particular blogging; which provides an opportunity for future exploration, by the daughter, who has (in her 3rd age years) found a love of historical education. Curiosity didn’t kill this cat – interaction is the key!